It's never been one of Magic: The Gathering 's most powerful or beloved enchantments and has seen a string of reprints in recent years
When it comes to gameplay mechanics, Paradox Rift, the recent expansion to release in the Pokemon TCG: Scarlet and Violet series, has a few dark horse cards to tip the battle in your favor, like the Iron Hands ex and Roaring Moon ex cards
Lore reduction hasn't been too valuable up to this point, but it's mostly been tied to one time on-play effects
Houndoom costs 400 Pack Points to craft
Older transforming cards don't have this same mechanic and are treated differently
The Pod in this deck was much more of a utility card than a win mechanism, I was planning on using it to shuffle my library, get card advantage and tutor up the odd answer dork with it rather than chain up into abusive fatties